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Sam Adams
Adams was first a Polition in Colonial Massachutses and he became the leader of the movement in the Revolutionary War that occured. Sam was also the cousin of the famous John Adams. -
Martha Washington
Martha was the Wife of the frist presedent of the United States of America. She used about 100 slaves in her entire lifespan for work that she needed done. -
George Washington
George was the 1st Presedent to serve is in in United States Of America. George was the Commander-Chief in the Revolutionary war for the British. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was the one who had warned the Colonial Militia that the British were coming. This also took place in the battle of Lexington and Concord. -
John Adams
John Adams was the 6th presedent to serve the United States of America but he became presedent because of his son. John was in the early stages of the American Revolution also. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas lived in France and he was on Frances side whle he fought in the Revolutionary War. Thomas was also a big part in the French Revolution because he foght alongside the French. -
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis was the first Marquess that fought beetween 1753 - 1762 in the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis joined the military in 1762 and became a really great fighter after that. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was know because at the beggning of the Revolutionary War he was fightning for the Continental Army but nearing the end he joined the British Army to fight for them. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas was one of the many founding fathers of the United States and he also sign most of the treatys that we have had in our history. One of the main things about Thomas was tha he was one of the few people who got to sign the Declaration Of Independance. -
Hessians
Hessians were the soldiers that fought in the Revolutionary War but most of these soldiers were from Germany. British were the ones who had most of the Hessians and used them alot during the Revolutionary War. -
Abagail Adams
Abagail was the Wife of John Adams and she was also alive in the Revolutionary War, She was also the mother of John Quincey Adams. She was considered the first lady of the united states. -
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Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed to end the 7 year war in North America and started the new British Era. The Treaty did not include the Perussia and Austria. -
Proclamation Of Independance
Te proclamation of Independance is the main thing that stopped everyone from fightning because it was like a Peace Treaty. This Proclamation is what opened a lot of barriers and then ofther this was created there were many more oppertunities for people. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was where you had to [pay for stamps when you bought them and all of the stamps that were bought went to people in need of money for their plantations. The stamp act was the very first act that was to come in play. -
The Quartering Act
An act published by the British Parlement was used to punish all of the mutiny desoration in America. This is also what caused the british in army to have better pay and sleeping quarters. -
Townshend Act
This act was one of the that could let people import and export all kinds of stuff to other places in the world. Coffe and Cocoa Nuts were come of the main exports that were tranported everywhere. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a street fight beetween the Patriots and the British soldiers. The British soldiers were the ones who had the guns and the patriots were the ones who had snowballs and rocks to fight with. -
Sons Of Liberty
The Sons Of Liberty was a group of American Patriots. This group was formed to protect the rights of the Colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was where there was a tax that had been raised on Tea so everyone got really mad about that so on this day there were people who dumped about 342 chests of tea out in the Boston Harbor because of this Tax raise on tea. After this Tea Party the tax on Tea was then lowered in tax so therefore there wasnt as much tax as there was on the tea before this whole tea party happened. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts is where most of the British spend a ton of money to get a lot of good weaponry to conquer Massachutses, yet most of these weapons were destroyed. On the exact same day of this act the Boston Tea Party also took place. -
Continental Congress
This was a big meeting beetween all of the colonies that had been in existance and was happened was each colony sent their own delagate to represent them. This meeting was at Capenter Hall in Philidelphia. -
Lexington and Concord
The main reason of the Lexiongton and Concord war was for Lexington to captrure Sam Adams and John Hancock. Before this war started there were some Americans who spread the word that there was going to be a war. -
Patriots
The Patriots were the ones who were know as the Rebels because they had a violently rebelled against the British during the Revolutionary War. Though the Patriots were a very big group indeed the British had better weaponry. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is what was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776 whiched announced all of the 13 Colonies. Then the British Empire created a brand new nation. -
Battle Of Saratoga
This battle of Saratoga was one of the Turning points in the Revolutionary War and changed history. This fight lasted a long time but as the end it was very good because after all, it was a turning point in History. -
Battle Of Yorktown
This was a war beetween the British and the French that took place in Yorktown, Virginia. This war was a very unfair war because the French had about 17.000 people while the British only had about 9,000 people in total that fought. -
Loyalists
The Loyalists were a group of people that were from the Americas who were very loyal to the Great British Kingdoms. All of the loyalists made this group in 1783 but there was no given date upon which they started this group. -
Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the only thing that ended the Revolutionary War. The main idea of this was to extend land in the US such as the boundries that they have.
